Re: websites issues and referral to additional list?

["Jerry Kindall" <j -dot- kindall -at- tecplot -dot- com>]

Thus spake Evelyn Lee Barney <evbarney -at- comcast -dot- net>:

> 2) They say: --Double clicking, or a subsequent later click, on a link

> that opens a separate new window, unexpectedly opens TWO identical 
> windows.  Second and subsequent clicks on any link should open the 
> window that's already open, not a new window. 

> I used the "_blank" setting for this, is there a better one?

Ev, I don't have any knowledge of Dreamweaver specifically, but it looks
to me like that's just an HTML target attribute (e.g. in the HTML it
becomes <a href="foo.html" target="_blank">).  A target of "_blank"
means that the link always opens a new window.  If you use any other
name (make one up suitable to your project, but don't start it with an
underscore), then the first link opens a window of that name, and
subsequent links use the same window if it exists (if the user closes
it, a new one is opened with the next link).  (Also, "_self" can be used
to force a link to open in the same window as the document containing
the link.)

(Users are still double-clicking Web links -- in 2009! *boggle*)

-- 
Jerry Kindall, SDK Writer
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